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Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
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Thursday, 9 February 2023
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What will password crackdown do to Netflix?
9 Feb 2023Been nicking from Netflix? The free ride is coming to an end as the streaming service signals a crackdown on password sharing in New Zealand.
It estimates up to 100 million subscribers have people… Read more Audio
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Evening Business News for 9 February 2023
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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'The struggle is real' - Auckland cleaner explains life on minimum wage
9 Feb 2023"The struggle is real out here." That from an Aucklander who works as a cleaner, earning the minimum wage.
She is welcoming the $1.50 an hour bump for Aotearoa's lowest earners. The government… Read more Audio
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Cricket: McCullum getting used to wearing England colours in NZ
9 Feb 2023Brendon McCullum admits it's a bit weird to be wearing England colours on New Zealand soil for the first time.
The English test side is here for the first time since the former Black Caps captain… Read more Audio
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Coromandel businesses worried as SH25A road damaged indefinitely
A giant hole in a key state highway to the Coromandel Peninsula has left businesses there increasingly worried about their livelihoods.
With state highway 25A out of action indefinitely holidaymakers… Read more Video, Audio
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Hundreds of Auckland renters struggling in flood-hit homes
As if the rental market wasn't already tight enough - there are now hundreds of renters left in flood damaged homes, desperately searching for a new rental.
So far 277 homes have been red stickered… Read more Audio
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Auckland deputy mayor details flood clean-up as cyclone looms
9 Feb 2023Aucklanders be prepared to get by on your own for three days - that's the advice from Emergency Management.
Cyclone Gabrielle is off the coast of Australia and could be heading towards New Zealand… Read more Audio
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
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Latest from Turkey as rescuers hurry in days after major quake
8 Feb 2023The clock is ticking for rescuers in Turkey and Syria after this week's two massive earthquakes. Close to 8000 people have been killed and tens of thousands more have been injured. Millions are now… Read more Audio
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Union boss responds to govt's policy reset
8 Feb 2023The social insurance scheme would have paid people up to 80 percent of their salary for seven months after losing their jobs. It was going to be funded by an employee and business levies. But the… Read more Audio
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PM Chris Hipkins reveals sweeping govt policy reset
8 Feb 2023In a sweeping policy reset, the government has axed the RNZ/TVNZ merger and pushed back work on hate speech and its social insurance scheme. The shake-up comes after the new Prime Minister Chris… Read more Audio
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Efforts underway for release of NZ pilot kidnapped in PNG
8 Feb 2023Diplomatic efforts are underway to try to secure the release of a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by Papuan rebels. Captain Philip Mehrtens was flying for Indonesia's Susi Air when he was captured by… Read more Audio
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Auckland family's flood-hit home now hit by burglars
8 Feb 2023A family whose home was flooded has now been hit again - this time by burglars. They're one of at least nine places in Epsom that have been broken into. Now they face having to deal with police, while… Read more Audio
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About this programme
Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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